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Kinda with you, but outside of those two there is still a bias towards antisemitism and misogyny among other uncouth worldviews.
And those people are rightly called out as tourists, and told to go back to the hole they came from.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boogaloo_movement
...also, a huge number of mass shooters have been 4chan regulars...
Loath as I am to give 4chan credit for anything positive, I feel like the article subject is slightly dismissive with its use of the phrase "stumbled upon." The anonymous 4chan user clearly did the work , it's not as though they came upon a proof written in the sand. For all we know it was a grad student with an ABD in Statistics who just happened to like anime. But the phrasing almost implies it's not a true accompl…
>Loath as I am to give 4chan credit for anything positive I love the fact we have somewhere unambiguously lowbrow on the internet. It's fun to watch how highbrow places talk about it.
At one of my old jobs, the bathroom was locked with a 4 digit code followed by the key symbol. We jokingly made up "Bathroom Code" as an interview question/to nerd snipe each other instead of working, which was "assuming you don't have to press key, and that the bathroom door will unlock if the correct 4 digits are entered in order at any time, write the code to print the shortest possible test sequence to guarantee…
It's different if the keypad gives an indication that one number is correct though, then it'll be 40 tries at most.
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implying hacker news is highbrow
I tend to enjoy the banter on 4chan more than here. Everyone is expected to dish it and take it there. Peoples' biases are obvious, because they make it clear who they dislike fairly often. Nobody actually takes any real offense to it all. It's quite pleasant compared to the sanitized world of... literally anywhere else. Of course, if seeing the N word makes you obsessively clutch pearls, then it's not the place for…
...or I can just participate in communities which are still plenty irreverent but doesn't have any of that?
Goddamn people - stop romanticizing 4chan or acting like it somehow gives us something special or unique.
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This story resurfaces every few years but the original post was on the /sci/ board in 2011. That was a loooooong time ago and although no one back then would have said 4chan was good (it was never good), it also doesn't surprise me it was originally posted there at that time. I don't think it would happen now.
4chan was great, but it very much was one of the oldest proprietors of the so called "normie filter". The biggest most offensive boards caused 95% of the trouble the site is known for. the smaller boards and threads could get some interesting stories and content (of all were of course, of reasonable falseness and potential homosexuality). The vibe was fine as long as you avoided the modern attitude and approach every…
Clicking around the previous discussions, it appears that the original question was posted on /sci/, a science and math board on 4chan, and not an anime board, as everybody who writes about this states. This is apparently an archive of the original post: http://4watch.org/superstring/ It's a question to a math community, using an anime meme template and referencing another anime. The discussion is very much not some…
It could have been a mathematician , you never know with that Anon guy.
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A chess club I played at was frequented by a guy who used to work as mathematician but got fed up by it at some point and started to work as a chess trainer. Still did maths and blogged regularly but never bothered to publish academic work. There's a lot of people like that in maths. Very talented but dropping in and out of it or doing it recreationally.
I think Grigori Perelman, who solved the Poincare conjecture and declined the Fields medal and Millennium prize money for it, then said he has retired from professional mathematics to avoid the fame, might qualify as the most famous in recent memory.
Oddly, the image that Scientific American chose to illustrate their article isn't from any of the Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya projects, but from Aokana - Four Rhythms Across the Blue, a much more obscure title.
Not to mention they occupy totally different mediums (anime vs visual novel). Kind of like using a random movie cover when you're talking about a music album.
At one of my old jobs, the bathroom was locked with a 4 digit code followed by the key symbol. We jokingly made up "Bathroom Code" as an interview question/to nerd snipe each other instead of working, which was "assuming you don't have to press key, and that the bathroom door will unlock if the correct 4 digits are entered in order at any time, write the code to print the shortest possible test sequence to guarantee…
I'm no mathematician or leetcode expert and probably don't understand "shortest possible test sequence", but it sounds like this is just bruteforcing 0000-9999. You can't guess what would be closer to the correct solution, so at best I'd propose making a list of choices and randomizing the tries in case you get lucky. It's different if the keypad gives an indication that one number is correct though, then it'll be 40…